Synthetic cathinones in drug-facilitated sexual assault: A case report involving the novel generation substituted cathinone N-ethylpentedrone and a review of the literature.
Forensic science international June 1, 2024 Guillaume Drevin, Jean-Michel Gaulier, Florian Hakim et al. 21 citations
A 36-year-old man was drugged and sexually assaulted; the novel synthetic cathinone N-ethyl-pentedrone (NEPD) was found in his blood and urine. Five synthetic cathinones have been linked to drug-facilitated sexual assault: methylenedioxypyrovalerone, 4-methylethcathinone, α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone, mephedrone, α-pyrrolidinohexiophenone, and methylone—the most common. Methylone, a β-keto analog of MDMA, shares its entactogenic effects. NEPD, however, produces only slightly entactogenic effects in a minority of users, making it more suited to chemsex than to drug-facilitated sexual assault, though the boundary between these contexts can be blurry.